Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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SAMARA 15 We welcome the new girls to our house, and hope that they will help to uphold its traditions in the future. Fry House members this year are : — Head Girl Miriam Cruikshank House Prefect Mary Hampson House Senior Janet Hutchison School Monitors. .Betty Hooper, Patricia Macoun and Sheila Skelton Barbara Barrett, Mimi Boal, Glenn Borbridge, Heather Collins, Margaret Curry, Joan Daniels, Betty Davison, Joan Dean, Elaine Ellsworth, Beatrice Fraser, Patricia Gait, Hope Gilmour, Alexandra Greening, Barbara Kennedy, Dorothy Laidlaw, Mary Jane MacAskill, Mary McGuckin, Marjorie McKinnon, Melodie Willis O ' Connor, Mary Palmer, Margaret Parkin, Hope Wattsford, Anna Wilson, Gwyneth Young. Mistresses — Miss Thwaite, Miss Barrow, Miss Bertheny, Miss Mills. HOUSE PREFECTS Virginia Copping Alix Chamberlain Mary Hampson

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14 SAMARA Florence Acheson, Elizabeth Alguire, Mary Baker, Marjory Barron, Eleanor Carson, Helen Collins, Rosemary Clarke, Alison Cochrane, Muriel Crocket, Gaye Douglas, Janet Dobell, Nancy Doane, Dawn Ekers, Susan Edwards, Mhairi Fen ton, Helen Gordon, Betty Hamilton, Elizabeth Hanson, Dorothy Leggett, Anna Mackay, Louise MacBrien, Pamela Mathewson, Mary Lee Pyke, Maria Petrucci, Jean Perley-Robertson, Penelope Sherwood, Ruth Tamblyn, Diana Vernon, June White, Pamela Wilson. Mistresses — Miss Scott, Miss Colling, Miss Adams, Miss MacBrien. FRY HOUSE NOTES EOR the last few years Fry has not succeeded in winning the House Shield but at the time of publication we are in second place. Come on, Fry, let ' s have it this time!! Last year Theodosia Bond, head of Fry, was awarded the Betty Gordon Gold Medal for her short story entitled Rewards . She also was presented with the Dramatic Medal for her remarkable work during the year. Marjorie Mackinnon, one of our younger members, was the winner of the Junior High Endeavour Award. Our house tennis team won the Interhouse Tennis Matches and we want to thank Betty Harris, Betty Hooper, Hope Wattsford, Barbara Kennedy, Hazel Ross and Betty Brown, who were the members of the team. In the School Tennis Tournament, Betty Hooper and Barbara Kennedy brought us honours once more. The former won the Senior Singles and both the Doubles. May they retain it this June. Unfortunately our Badminton results were not very good this winter but the team did their best and showed great enthusiasm in the game. We are proud of our three members who are on the school tennis team — Betty Hooper, Hope Wattsford and Barbara Kennedy (substitute for Ethel Southam). We hope that they will succeed once more in winning the Interscholastic Tennis Trophy as soon as the weather permits the first match to be played. We want to thank our Games Captain, Betty Hooper, and her vice, Barbara Kennedy, for their enthusiasm and help in our games. Through their able coaching and the many practices, we are hoping to get nearer to the top in Basket-ball this year. At the Christmas party each house produced a play. Ours was entitled The Dear Departed . Through the kindness of Miss Barrow our acting improved considerably, and we took second place, Miriam Cruikshank, Hope Gilmour and Melodie Willis O ' Connor getting a mention for their performances. We also want to congratulate Miss Barrow, one of our House Mistresses, for her splendid performance in Marco Millions , which took second place in the Dominion Drama Festival.

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16 SAMARA prefect JHote M. Cruikshank. — Happy- Go- Lucky. Mimsy as our Head Girl has done splendid work this year. It is largely due to her influence that the day girls have been brought in closer contact with the Boarders, and under her enthusiastic leadership there has been remarkable school spirit and keenness. One of her most important duties comes at the end of the week when she assumes the role of hostess at the Friday afternoon business meetings. If Mimsy ' s high hopes are realized she will leave Canada next year to become a Yankee at Smith College in Massachusetts. We ' ll hope the Toronto Matriculation examiners won ' t be too hard on her. Virginia Copping. — Subtle wiles are in her smiles. Gin as Head of Nightingale has carried on the good work of the former prefects of that house, which at present is leading in the competition for the House Shield. She also with Mary Malloch is the official collector for our school donations, and her winning smile has caused the gold to come pouring in this year. Ginny is a hard worker both as a boarder prefect and as a guard on the basketball team. She will cross the high seas next year to Paris, and we wish her the best of luck in that exciting ville francaise. Mary Malloch. — Knowledge is power. Mary as joint treasurer with Ginny and school librarian, carries out her duties very efficiently. She is one of the few girls completing her honour matric. this year and we wish her every success. Mary has been longer in the school than any of the other prefects, and so we consider her advice very weighty and valuable. When our reporter ques- tioned Mary as to her plans next year, a very worried countenance answered I don ' t know, but whatever it is, we hope she ' ll do well, and if it ' s along a studious line, we haven ' t any doubt that she will sail along at the top.